Tuesday, September 18, 2012

I have been holding on to this little secret for several weeks and it has just about burned a hole in me!! Several weeks ago I received an e-mail from Jackie at Jackie at Cake Central. They wanted me to submit a cake for publication in Cake Central magazine. I answered her back so fast I think the e-mail caught on fire!!

The theme I was asked to submit for was "Minimally Decorated with a Splash of Red". Now, that's a hard theme for any decorator that wants to showcase their skills to the rest of the decorating community. But I vowed that I would do my best to keep the design simple.

I was really happy with the way this design turned out. I have read Cake Wrecks too many times and seen too many balloon cakes that turned out looking like something... less sophisticated.

I actually made 2 cakes to submit, and Cake Central put both in the magazine. I was worried that they wouldn't one cake or the other, so I submitted a second cake.

This was the other cake I submitted. I had conceived this design a while back, but with different colors.

I only had a couple of weeks from initial request to submission to get these cakes ready. I wished I had more time to work on them.

How many of you receive Cake Central? I wished it was still a real live printed magazine, but I'm still glad to be published in a leading industry magazine.

Special Thanks go out to Mike Houston of Houston Studiosfor taking such great photos to submit to the magazine.

Congrats! thats very exciting! I too wish that the magazine was still in print. I loved getting that printed copy of all the beautiful cakes. Oh well I still enjoy the magazine and will be looking out for your cakes.

Hi Freckles! I'm not sure of the question... the real balloons in the background, or the ones on the cake? I hand sculpted the ones on the cake from fondant with strings made from edible image paper strips, and the real balloons I got at Party City. Congratulations on your upcoming marriage!!

OK... I was just reminded today when reading your blog of this wonderful balloon cake! It popped up in one of your posts... and I realized this was an inspiration to one of my cakes - I knew I saw it somewhere!!! I have added you in the credits: http://sweetthings-toronto.blogspot.ca/2013/02/elephant-baby-shower-cake.html

I'm not sure of the question... the real balloons in the background, or the ones on the cake? I hand sculpted the ones on the cake from fondant with strings made from edible image paper strips, and the real balloons I got at Party City.